I know some very choshova people who are very makpid to say Tehillim within an hour of ??? ??? as it is a very special ?? ????. As an aside, ?? ?? ????? the word Tehillim is incorrect. The word should be Tehillos, ???? ????. The Malbim wished to have it changed, but being the ???? in ??? ???? uses the word in ???? ???, the gedolim of his era refused to have it altered.

I believe the reason was that a yid looks like a yid whether or not he is wearing his yarmulke. That person going into the movies is already being oiver one averia. By removing his yarmulke he is now oiver 2 averiros.

My husband had a friend Chiya who lived in Philadelphia, who came here to learn in a Bais Medrash in Brooklyn.

I have always felt that Jewish people should retain their Jewish names as their english name as well. When I became engaged years ago, I asked my parents if I could change my English name from Hannah to Chanie. They said yes, so after an eight month process, I was proud to see my hebrew name on all my legal documents.

When I mentioned this thread to my husband last night, he reminded me that when ???? ???? from the second volume of Amudai Shaish came out, it was ???? to sing it in Torah Vodaas. It was learned that almost note for note, it was composed and sung by a ??? named Ben E. King.

Give me a Reb Baruch Levine song any day and you will feel its Kedusha. He is a true Ben Torah who is obviously not influenced by the goyishe velt. I’ll bet he doesn’t even listen to it, hence his beautiful compositions.

To the person who wrote that all music is ???? please bear in mind that no less a Godal as the Vilna Goan brings down, that music can bring a person to the highest level of Avoda to Hashem. Furthermore, he says that for a person to know Trop in Tanach, he must be an expert in Music Theory as well as Composition.

Before anyone writes and asks where the source can be found, I saw it in Artscrolls Biography of the Vilna Goan.